Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-02-18

bow and a girl. The girl is ID and the
bow IA wears old. The boy is an lnva-
lid, but his mother says she intends 10
make him the richest man in America.
If she keeps on piling up money at her
present rate she will probably succeed.
New York has a number OF rich
widows. Mrs. Joseph Aver is the rellct
of the pill doctor who made q fortune
in patent medicines and left her about
So, 900, 900. Mrs. Martin Bates was
left by her husband sl,50o,0oo which
he made in dry goods, and q Mrs
James Brown, who lives in q fine
house on Park avenue and Twenty
seventh street, received from her hus-
bands estate about $4,000, 900, which
! he accumulated as a banker. Mrs. w.
Z. Dodge is worth S 4 1000, 900, much Of
the income Of which she sends to the
heather. Mrs. Robert Goelet is worth
So, 600, 900, made in hardware, and Mrs.
John G. Green, the widow of the
Princeton College patron, is worth
$40, OOO, 600. Mrs. John Minturn is an
other wealthy New York widow. She
is worth 50, 600, 900, and her father was
an Aspinwall. Gov. Morgan's widow is
worth several millions. Clarkson Pot
ter's widow has an immense income
from his estate, and Mrs. Edwin Stew
ems, who owns "Castle Point" ut Ho-
bokin, is one Of the richest widows in
| America. and counts her wealth by tens
of millions.
Mrs. Paran Stevens husband made
So, 900, 600 in hotels. and he has left her
the Victoria and a share in the Fifth
Avenue; and Mrs. Marshall o. Roberts,
the eight millionaire widow of the ming
eng, was talked Of while Mr.. Arthur
was in the White House.
Philadelphia's wealthiest widow is
Mrs. John Ray Barton, who is worth
So, 900, 600. which she ,inherits from her
father, DR.. John Rush. Tom SCOTS
widow is worth $4,000, 600, which her
husband left her from his railroad spec
ulations, and the widow of NJ. w. Bald
win, the locomotive builder, is esti-
mated as owning $4,000 900 of this
worlds goods. Henry Diston, the saw
manufacturer, left nearly 1000, 600 to
his wife, and the Quaker City has half
a dozen more rich widows whose
bank books register accounts as large
as the wealth of CrGsus.
Rich single women are numerous.
Miss Jennie Riggs, of Washington, in
herited q fortune from her father, the
noted banker. I have spoken before
of Miss Garrett, whose age is between
80 and 40, and q Philadelphia man tells
me hat the banker Drexel's three
daughters will get $6,000,0 600 apiece
from his estate when it comes to them.
Another rich Philadelphia girl is Miss
Helen Eben, who is worth o million,
and who also boasts of being al ac-
complished horsewoman. She drives
tandem, and can ride over fences and
bitches as gracefully as does the daugh-
ter of Secretary Bayard.
The richest single woman. in the
country is Catherine Wolfe. She has an
income estimated at half a million a
year, and she owns real estate all over
New York. Her father, Peter Wolfe,
married Peter Lorillard's sister, and
with her got a dowry of q million
dollars. His wife died soon, and he
married another of the Lorillard sisters,
and with her got another million. In
a short time she died, also, and Wolfe,
after specializing awhile with his two
millions and more, died himself, and
his property came to his daughter
Catharine. She hos invested it well
from year to year, and now, at the age
so, she thinks too much of it to permit
any man to aid her in spending it. She
fears, it is said, fortune hunters, and il
may be that it has brought more Of
misery than of happiness into her life
Another rich single woman of New
York is Miss Sarah Hitchcock, who il
worth $l2, 600, 200. She has her money
largely invested in real estate, and il
fond of society.-Cleueland Leader.
TAKING TIME BY THE FORELOCK.
In a certain school not far from the
Hub" there is q little and very ex
, citable Frenchman in charge of the
French class. The other day the
, teacher said something that the pupil!
!, considered funny, so they laughed, bu,
unfortunately for them there was NJ
laugh required. "What was zee, boys
Eat made Eat bray zen?" All wer,